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The Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine 22 (1): 57-61 (2009)
DOI: 10.3122/jabfm.2009.01.070035
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Family Medicine World Perspective

Thirty Years of Family Medicine Publications in Israel (1975–2004): What, Where, and How Much?

Y. Pshetizky, MD, H. Tandeter, MD, H. Tabenkin, MD, S. Vinker, MD, A. Lahad, MD, K. Karkabi, MD, MMH, E. Kitai, MD, D. Hermoni, MD and P. Shvartzman, MD

Siaal Family Medicine and Primary Care Research Center, Department of Family Medicine, Division of Community Health, Faculty of Health Sciences Ben-Gurion Univeristy of the Negev, Israel (YP, H. Tandeter, H. Tabenkin, PS)
Clalit Health Services (CHS) –South District, Beer-Sheva, Israel (YP, H. Tandeter, PS)
Clalit Health Services (CHS) –North District, Afula, Israel (H. Tabenkin)
Department of Family Medicine, Tel-Aviv University, Clalit Health Services (CHS) –Central District, Tel-Aviv, Israel (SV)
Department of Family Medicine, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Clalit Health Services (CHS) –Jerusalem District, Jerusalem, Israel (AL)
Department of Family Medicine, Rappaport Faculty of Medicine, Technion, Haifa, Clalit Health Services, Haifa and Western Galilee District, Israel (KK)
Leumit Health Services –Tel-Aviv, Department of Family Medicine, Tel-Aviv University, Tel-Aviv, Israel (EK)
Clalit Health Services (CHS) –Sharon-Shomron District and Rappaport Faculty of Medicine, Technion, Haifa (DH)

Correspondence: Corresponding author: Prof. Pesach Shvartzman, Chairman, Division of Community Health, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, PO Box 653, Beer-Sheva 84105, Israel (E-mail: spesah{at}bgu.ac.il)

Background: Departments of family medicine in Israel were established in the 1970s. Until now, little or no effort has been made to characterize the productivity of Israeli board-certified family medicine physicians in publishing peer-reviewed scientific articles.

Methods: Publications were identified by 2 methods. First, a PubMed search by names of current and past faculty from all the departments of family medicine in Israel (1975–2004). Secondly, all of the departments in Israel forwarded a list of all publications by their faculty (including those that do not appear in Medline). The abstracts of all publications were extracted and were separately and blindly evaluated by 2 reviewers. Publications were classified according to Medline citation, language, journal impact factor, and publication type.

Results: A total of 1165 publications were identified and analyzed. More than half of the articles were published in the last 10 years. Seventy-two percent were cited in Medline. Publications in English encompassed 64.7% of the publications, Hebrew 34.6%, and 0.7% other. Approximately 6% of the articles were published in journals with impact factor ≥3, with research articles accounting for 46.9%. The publication output of family medicine in Israel averaged 85.4 publications per 1000 family medicine physicians per year. Almost 70% of the articles were published in non-family medicine journals. Academically affiliated, board-certified family medicine physicians published at higher rates, averaging 334.3 per 1000 academic family medicine physicians per year (data available for 2000–2004 only).

Conclusions: Publishing and research are important to the development of family medicine as an academic profession, in which Israeli family physicians show significant productivity.


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